IcaroRibeiro said:
It's painful to see how underappreciated is Zelda in Japan They pick even easy-made remasters before this masterpiece |
its more about taste.
BOTW is more like a western acton adventure game, a genre that isn't as appealing to japan as the west, over in the west its a fully mainstream genre.
meanwhile japan's definition of mainstream is JRPGs.
just to give you a perspective from numbers almost 3 decades ago:
zelda, LTTP: 1.15 mil, holiday 1991
Fire emblem 3: 0.7 mil, january 1994
Fire emblem 4: 0.58 mil, may 1996
Fire emblem, even though its less of a niche in japan compared to the west(and didn't exist at this point in the west), sold half as much on its main SNES realese and did it again teo years later on its main SNES games (FE5 realesed in 1999, a bit too late to be a fair comparison).
another example is how metroid sales went from niche to near non-existance levels when metroid prime came out.
so yeah, zelda selling less is becasue they, in general, don't like the genre as much.
remember that dragon quest is thier equivilant to god of war or something in terms of popularity.
